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The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applied: or, A discourse concerning the general…The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applyed: or, A discourse concerning the general…
The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applied: or, A discourse concerning the general conversion of the Israelitish nation. Wherein is showed, 1. That the Twelve Tribes shall be saved. 2. When this is to be expected. 3. Why this must be. 4. What kind of salvation the Tribes of Israel shall partake of (viz.) a glorious, wonderful, spiritual, temporal salvation. : Being the substance of several sermons preached / by Increase Mather, M.A. teacher of a church in Boston in New England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]The mystery of Israel's salvation, explained and applyed: or, A discourse concerning the general conversion of the Israelitish nation. Wherein is shewed, 1. That the Twelve Tribes shall be saved. 2. When this is to be expected. 3. Why this must be. 4. What kind of salvetion the Tribes of Israel shall partake of (viz.) a glorious, wonderful, spiritual, temporal salvation. : Being the substance of several sermons preached / by Increase Mather, M.A. teacher of a church in Boston in New England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
London: printed for John Allen, 1669
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2. It is a wonderful thing, that ever the Israelitish Nation should be preserved in the world, through so many and stupendous changes as have attended that afflicted Nation. The truth is, that never any Nation upon earth was under so dreadful an hand of God, so sore, and of so long continuance, as the Jewish Nation hath been, and is: This and more is affirmed by our Saviour, Matt. 24.21. For there shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be: So that this last and most grievous tribulation of ⟨p. 72⟩the Jewish Nation. It is not only the greatest calamity that ever did befall any Nation since the world began, but the greatest that ever shall befall any people to the worlds end, that indeed one might wonder that ever the Nation should be upheld in being in the midst of such wasting and woeful judgments; Therefore it is added, verse 22. Except those days should be shortened, no flesh should be saved; but for the elects sake those days shall be shortened: The meaning is, that such direful vengeance and wrath will befall the Jewish Nation, that were it not that there is an elect seed to proceed out of their Loins in due time to be called, that whole carnal Nation would be utterly destroyed. Consider Isa. 65.8. Besides, there never was any Nation guilty of such prodigious wickedness as the Jewish Nation hath been guilty of, whereby they have infinitely provoked the most high to cast and cut them off for ever.
2. It is a wonderful thing, that ever the Israelitish Nation should be preserved in the world, through so many and stupendious changes as have attended that afflicted Nation. The truth is, that never any Nation upon earth was under so dreadful an hand of God, so sore, and of so long continuance, as the Jewish Nation hath been, and is: This and more is affirmed by our Saviour, Matt. 24.21. For there shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be: So that this last and most grievous tribulation of ⟨p. 72⟩